The Works of Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates. With Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes, Historical and Explanatory, Volumen6C. Bathurst, 1754 |
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... Shew'd patterns juft from India brought , And gravely afk'd her what she thought ; Whether the red or green were beft , And what they coft ? Vanessa guefs'd , As came into her fancy first ; Nam'd half the rates , and lik'd the worst ...
... Shew'd patterns juft from India brought , And gravely afk'd her what she thought ; Whether the red or green were beft , And what they coft ? Vanessa guefs'd , As came into her fancy first ; Nam'd half the rates , and lik'd the worst ...
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... Shews the comparison is pat . Yet in fome points my lord is wrong : One's teeth are fold , and t'other's tongue : Now men of parliament , God knows , Are more like elephants of shows , Whose docile memory and fenfe Are turn'd to trick ...
... Shews the comparison is pat . Yet in fome points my lord is wrong : One's teeth are fold , and t'other's tongue : Now men of parliament , God knows , Are more like elephants of shows , Whose docile memory and fenfe Are turn'd to trick ...
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... Shews how the art of cobling bears A near resemblance to the spheres . : A fcrap of parchment hung by geometry ( A great refinement in barometry ) Can , like the ftars , foretel the weather ; And what is parchment else but leather ...
... Shews how the art of cobling bears A near resemblance to the spheres . : A fcrap of parchment hung by geometry ( A great refinement in barometry ) Can , like the ftars , foretel the weather ; And what is parchment else but leather ...
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... to the next that writ ; ) And thus upon the stage'tis fairly + thrown ; Let him that takes it , wear it as his own . Shews a cap with ears . + Flings down the cap , and exit . * SANDY S's OR , A Proper New BALLAD ΟΝ ΤΗΕ New OVID's * ...
... to the next that writ ; ) And thus upon the stage'tis fairly + thrown ; Let him that takes it , wear it as his own . Shews a cap with ears . + Flings down the cap , and exit . * SANDY S's OR , A Proper New BALLAD ΟΝ ΤΗΕ New OVID's * ...
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... Shews all her fecrets of house - keeping ; For candles how fhe trucks her dripping ; Was forc'd to fend three miles for yeast To brew her ale , and raise her paste ; Tells ev'ry thing that you can think of , How the cur'd Tommy of the ...
... Shews all her fecrets of house - keeping ; For candles how fhe trucks her dripping ; Was forc'd to fend three miles for yeast To brew her ale , and raise her paste ; Tells ev'ry thing that you can think of , How the cur'd Tommy of the ...
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Página 146 - Tis but the funeral of the former year. Let joy or ease, let affluence or content, And the gay conscience of a life well spent, Calm every thought, inspirit every grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face. Let day improve on day, and year on year, Without a pain, a trouble, or a fear...
Página 263 - HERE continueth to rot The Body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, Who, with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of Life, PERSISTED, In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, In the Practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE, Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY : His insatiable AVARICE exempted him from the first, His matchless IMPUDENCE from the second.
Página 30 - Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
Página 43 - A sable cloud athwart the welkin flings, That swill'd more liquor than it could contain, And, like a drunkard, gives it up again.
Página 196 - To raise the lumber from the earth. But view him in another scene, When all his drink is Hippocrene, His money...
Página 300 - I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend.
Página 45 - Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. Box'd in a chair, the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within...
Página 301 - tis a shocking sight, And he's engaged to-morrow night; My Lady Club will take it ill, If he should fail her at quadrille. He loved the Dean— (I lead a heart,) But dearest friends, they say, must part. His time was come: he ran his race; We hope he's in a better place.
Página 146 - See how the world its veterans rewards ! A youth of frolics, an old age of cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without lovers, old without a friend; A fop their passion, but their prize a sot, Alive, ridiculous; and dead, forgot!
Página 299 - He'll treat me as he does my betters, Publish my will, my life, my letters ; Revive the libels born to die : Which Pope must bear as well as I. Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament.